FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE Announcement

It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of
FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE. Work done between the 5.4-RELEASE and this release
has mostly been bugfixes. Some ``vendor supplied'' software has also
been updated, mostly due to security concerns (specifically BIND
and sendmail).

This is the last planned release on the 5-STABLE
branch. The FreeBSD development community is currently focusing its
efforts on the 6-STABLE and CURRENT codelines. No new major features
are planned for the 5-STABLE branch, although minor updates and bugfixes
may be merged at the discretion of individual developers. The FreeBSD
security team will support the FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-based security branch
with advisories and security patches until the end-of-life date documented
at
http://security.freebsd.org/
(as of this writing, May 31, 2008).

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:

Availability

FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE supports the amd64, i386, pc98, alpha, and sparc64
architectures and can be installed directly over the net using
bootable media or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions
for all architectures are available now.

Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media
from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be
offering FreeBSD 5.5 based products:

If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to
use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO
images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the
larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from the
following sites. MD5 and SHA256 checksums for the release images are
included at the bottom of this message.

BitTorrent

5.5-RELEASE ISOs are not available via BitTorrent at this time. They
may be made available in the future on an on-demand basis.

FTP

At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD
5.5-RELEASE available.